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February 16, 2025

How We Learn to Be Brave, by Mariann Edgar Budde

This is a really beautiful book, so rich, honest, and generous. I bought it as a gesture of support and solidarity, but wasn’t sure—as someone without religion—how much I’d connect with it, but I appreciated its lessons so much and found them really buoying.

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New Novel, Coming Soon

Book Cover Definitely Thriving. Image of a woman in an upside down green bathtub surrounded by books. Text reads Definitely Thriving, A Novel, by Kerry Clare

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